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 This week in literacy, we created a story plan for our gingerbread story.  We planned our characters and then wrote our beginning, including our setting and introducing our characters. We also worked on alphabetizing words using the first and second letters.  To go with our stories, the students designed and created gingerbread man traps, using only marshmallows and toothpicks.  Check out our traps. In math this week, we continued looking at 3D shapes and identifying their characteristics.  We also explored Tangram puzzles to see how flipping or rotating shapes help us to solve the puzzle. Important Reminders & Upcoming Events: 1. Please,  NO Toys  at school!  2. Library Exchange on  Thursdays 3. Winter Break , NO school from Dec 20–Jan 6th 4. Looking for Volunteers for our February 6th Field Trip to Studio Bell, please email Mrs. Stringer

 This week in literacy, we continued reading and exploring Gingerbread stories.  This week we read The Gingerbread Cowboy and identified the different story elements using complete sentences.  Then we compared the 2 stories, using a Venn diagram, to see what was the same and different between the two stories. In Word Work this week, we focused on vowel teams that produce the long e sounds, /ea/, /ee/, and /ey/.  We spelled words with those patterns, built words, sorted words, and 'coded' them in text. In math this week, we began looking at 2D and 3D shapes.  We looked at how you can tell them apart by looking at their attributes, faces, sides, and vertices.  We also did a scavenger hunt around the room to find different shapes in real life and some math talks about various shapes. In Science, we continued learning about Energy.  This week, we learned that Energy is the ability to do work we also talked about different ways objects and people can move....

 In literacy this week, we 'popped' our sentences again by adding the where. Grades 2 and 3 did a great job putting all the kernel sentences together, wrote 3 complete sentences independently, and identified the different parts.  We also read a story called, Gingerbread Baby.  This was the first story in our Gingerbread story unit, where we will review story elements, compare and contrast different gingerbread stories and then write our own story.  In word work this week, we worked with alternative long [a]vowel sounds, like [ei], [ey], and [eigh].  We also talked about homophones, words like weigh and wait, that sound the same but are spelt differently and different meanings. In our math groups, we continued studying addition strategies. We used a beaded number line to solve addition questions from 1 to 20. We also continue with our number routines and solving various math puzzles in the mornings. This week, in science, we completed our matter unit, looking at ...